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I'm getting my feet wet with GlusterFS community . If you haven't heard of it yet, it's a distributed cloud file system by Red Hat. It's an open-source project with many goodness within, which empower Red Hat Storage (RHS) server. I was asked to look into the Gluster.org project site & make suggestions on how can we make it better. Better is a subjective term; it depends on the end goal and how far the plan can achieve it. I've set myself a goal & the goal is to radically increase participation in Gluster project. There are several parts to act on this, and all those will be communicated with in apt channels. This post, however, focuses on renovating the website as the public face & funnel to drive participation & contributions.

Recently I've been looking up on the Linux application portability & the already available options. Not under the hoods, really - just the overview, to have an educated opinion. Docker basically is DotCloud re-organized - one of those early-birds to leave their PaaS business & take this up. It takes Linux Containers (liblxc) as its base & then provides an abstraction, implemented in Go. They're in a process to use more abstraction, and implement better environment for app-portability (using AUFS, and even BTRFS) to further reduce the complexity of dealing with containers & contained applications. It kind of targets Ubuntu as the platform - haven't stumbled upon any doc that says they've plans for other Linux distros - I may be wrong. Going deeper, Linux Containers is a wrapper around the Kernel to expose many/most of its features. It uses Linux control-groups (cgroups) heavily, and can expose Kernel namespaces, SELinux, Seccomp etc. to w...